To the Editor,
A couple of weeks ago the residents of Cherry Creek were invited to a meeting to discuss our water, it’s purification and delivery—you know, the Cherry Creek water that has absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Because of the problems of other improvement districts and their inability to come to a consensus on good water delivery, we have the bureaucrats at the Vancouver Island Health Authority dream up an inept response to the concerns of a very few people. Now in typical bureaucratic bumbling, they dream up a system that is both meaningless and onerous to the situation in Cherry Creek.
The VIHA people assure us we have to spend millions of dollars to improve on our water delivery and we indeed have to react or they (these unelected bureaucrats) will force us to comply by enforcing the replacement of our duly elected improvement district members with a person of their choosing.
Historically, Cherry Creek has been able to solve the water delivery system in house and has one of the best water delivery systems in the province, but that isn’t good enough for the VIHA people.
At the meeting I asked these VIHA people how many thousands of people have died at the hands of our various improper and tainted water delivery systems throughout B.C. and they responded that they didn’t have the answer with them but assured us they would deliver the information as soon as they could.
I already knew the answer but wanted to see if they did. I had in the past asked our then doctor in charge the same question and his answer was “zero.”
So here we go, spending millions to protect us from basically nothing.
Dennis Dalla-Vicenza,
Port Alberni
